As insecurity reigns supreme in most parts of Northern Nigeria, a former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has urged the northern political elite to look beyond President Goodluck Jonathan for solution to the insecurity ...
The US Department of State has listed Abubakar Shekau, Abubakar Adam Kambar, and Khalid al-Barnawi who are leaders of the Boko Haram sect as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. In a statement made avail...
Suicide bombers have attacked two churches in Zaria, and another in Kaduna. In Zaria, ECWA, Wusasa and Christ the King Church, Sabon Gari were bombed. So far, 15 persons have been confirmed dead in the CKC attack, with several others injured. At ECWA c...
Of the total number of 1922 corps members that served in Cross River State, 47 are undergoing various sanctions for committing offences including absconding from their area of primary assignment. Others traveled out of their stations without permission...
Indications emerged yesterday that the police searched the home of Farouk Lawan in a bid to recover the $620, 000, which is at the centre of the controversy between him and Femi Otedola. A source close to the lawmaker said that the police barred Lawan&...
The embattled Chairman of the fuel subsidy probe panel in the House of Representatives, Honourable Farouk Lawan has been suspended. This is following a Friday morning emergency session of the Federal House of Representatives, to deliberate on his invol...
President Goodluck Jonathan has dispelled reports in the media alleging his involvement in a bribery scandal involving Chairman of House of Representatives' fuel subsidy probe ad-hoc committee chairman, Farouk Lawan and a petroleum marketing firm, ...
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday outside a church in central Nigeria as gunmen attacked another church in the nation's northeast, killing at least three people and wounding dozens of others in the latest religious violence in a co...
Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. MuhammaduBuhari, said yesterday that his party would soon reach an accord with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on how to wrestle power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, P...
Barely one week after the fatal air crash involving Dana Air in Lagos, another air mishap was narrowly averted yesterday at the NnamdiAzikiwe Airport, Abuja when the run way lights went off, thus making it impossible for planes to either take off or la...
The spate of insecurity in parts of the north heightened yesterday with the bombing of the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, by a suicide bomber. The bomber, it was learnt, rammed into the premises in a bom...
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has appointed Mrs Amina Az-Zubair a former Senior Special Assistant to President Jonathan on MDGs, as his Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, and Parfait Onanga-Anyanga of Gabon as his S...
A plane carrying 150 passengers and six crew members crashed into a building in Lagos on Sunday, the head of Civil Aviation Authority told AFP, adding that he fears none had survived. Although a reliable source told said 156 persons were killed, author...
At least twelve people have been killed in a suicide attack on Harvest Church in Yelwan Tudu, Bauchi. A suicide bomber drove a Honda car into the Church which is sandwiched between Deeper Life Church and Living Faith church. Many are reported to ...
Following the killing of a German national, the United States mission in Nigeria said it has temporarily deferred all but the most essential mission travel by U.S. government personnel under Chief of Mission authority to northern Nigeria. The mission a...